Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Along this same line, I keep a box in my darkroom (usually an empty photo paper box) marked on the inside box top with the year. I keep any photograhps from a print session that are 'good enough' but not quite fine enough for display in my home or for sale to clients. I stack these and just keep them on a shelf in my basement. They are a wonderful record of my photo career as well as subjects I've photographed and life in general. Every shot is history. Lea - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 12:54 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica] was: Website updated don't throw away! > Sonny Carter said: > > > > Such a good point, Ted. Among the photographs in our wonderful collection > > are the entire negative file and hundreds of prints of a local > photographer > > who spent his career right here. Of course, they are the test prints, > and > > those that were not quite good enough to give to the customer, sometimes > > proofs that were not sold. He shot weddings, beauty pageants, stuff for > the > > sheriff, for the newspapers, almost anything that a guy living in a small > > town could do to make a living. > > > > The upshot is that it is a fabulous document of our little town's life > from > > about 1950 until the middle 70's. > > > > We run shots from his work in the newspaper from time to time, and also do > > exhibits in our library and in the Research Center Reading Room. > > > > I really am glad he did not clean house!<<<<< > > Hi Sonny, > When I give lectrues or presentations to photo students, clubs and or > professionals, I make a point of how valuable our photo files are, simply > because each and everyone of us are the recorders of our times. There isn't > anyone hired to go around the country and document life in every nook and > cranny or village, so our files are very important to any archives. > > Quite often happy snaps of the old mill or factory when it blew-up or burned > down maybe the only photo records even by an amature, so they become very > important for their historical value. > > >From the war years till 1971-2 the National Film Board of Canada produced > stills documentaries on life in Canada, all kinds of subjects so varied it > never ended until the some stupid federal government politicians, whom we > know are a bunch of clueless morons in any country, couldn't see any value > in documenting how we lived and worked in Canada. So the projects were > cancelled. :-( > > And for the past 30 years there hasn't been a proper documentation of how > our country has evolved in its diversity and ethnic changes. A real shame > when you see what was done for the 30 plus years prior. > > So each of us are the recorders of our times, the more we shoot and have fun > from our first love of photography, the greater the legacy we leave for our > future families and the country as a whole. > > I realize there'll be some who wont understand this value of their pictures, > but when I can go back 50 plus years and see what the city I lived in at the > time and people looked like. Or pictures of our children when they were > little and now parents themselves, the value of still photographs is one of > the great assets any photographer can leave for his family and possibly for > his country. > > So lets be careful out there folks to what you throw away! You may have some > diamonds in that neg and slide collection of yours. > ted > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html